Past Recipients:
2018
- McClayne Thomas (English Literature) received first place for his essay, “Hamlet: The Anti-Pro-Theatricalist”
- Alanna Heatherly (Classics, History, MRST) received honorable mention for her essay, “Bellum Spirituale, Glorified War in Waltharius, and the Bloody Frankish Civil War”
- Mia Otting (English Literature) received honorable mention for her essay, “The Effects of Love as a Wound in Margery Kempe’s Book of Margery Kempe, Marie de France’s “Guigemar,” and Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam“
2017
- Courtney Whited (English) received first place for her essay “‘Whereat fair Proserpine began to smile’: Bel-Imperia as the Mortal Equivalent of Proserpine in The Spanish Tragedy,” written for English 398, “Hamlet 24/7,” with Professor Heather Hirschfeld.
- Joseph McCluney (History) received honorable mention for his essay “The Creation of Early Christian Identity in the Catacombs of Rome,” written for History 499, “Christianity in Early Antiquity,” with Professor Jacob Latham.
2015
- Allison Gose, a senior majoring in History and Political Science with a minor in Religious Studies, won first prize for her essay “Spiritual Eroticism and the Nature of the Soul,” written for Religious Studies 423 with Professor Tina Shepardson.
- Hannah Overton, a junior majoring in English, won second prize for her essay “Clothing vs. Genitalia: The Flux of Gender,” written for English 405 with Dr. Samantha Murphy.